Hat Yao
Walking home from where we had dinner on a small beach near our bungalow, it got dark very suddenly as it has a tendency to do, and we made a wrong turn and found ourselves lost in the backways of the tiny coastal community inhabited by 'Chao Leh', who are sea gypsies - a formerly nomadic sea-faring group of people. In the pitch blackness we tried to find our way and we came upon some houses and people. We asked for directions, and the kind woman volunteered her teenage son to show us the way on his motorbike. He seemed quite...

The date was 24 December 2002. I took a bus to Alor Star from Johor Bahru which took me about 9 hours or so. (I was cheated , the bus supposed to stop at Kangar but i was told the bus only run from Jb to alor star . I was lucky it was during the day , if not i would have panicked . Later i took a another bus to Kangar . I check in one of the cheap hotel in Kangar for a few days.
Second day , i braced my self to the padang besar taking local bus. During the journey i found Kangar - perlis was very green and laidback but frenly. I reached...